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It had drama and suspense and heart and joy in equal measures and not once became boring or hard to read. I loved this book and I would happily read it again. But it was still confusing at times and I eventually gave up trying to remember who everyone is. It also helps that you are drip fed the characters as the chapters progress, rather than being inundated from the very beginning. All the female characters had names beginning with a vowel and the male characters a consonant, which helps to simplify it a bit. These are 3 different female characters and I still can’t quite remember how they are related to each other. What I didn’t like about this book: There are a lot of characters and they all have short names that sound similar. This is difficult for Ayla, but she has a quick mind and a natural curiosity. I think it is that which elevates this book from being an interesting fictional history book to an exceptional read. When an earthquake destroys her familys camp, Ayla is left orphaned and alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land, her likelihood of survival slim. Ayla is adopted by The Clan and trained by Iza to be a medicine woman. The storyline seems quite modern and it’s easy to empathise and sympathise with the heroine of the book. It is a story that has been told for generations in a way the trials Ayla goes through could be taken from her prehistoric time and placed in the 18th or 19th century and still feel true as it is essentially a story of a repressed woman. Something else I love about this book is the storyline itself.

She is such a complex character in the way that she thinks and feels, but on the most natural level possible you understand her as she is more modern thinking than any of the characters around her. She wants to be independent but lives every day trying to conform. She has a strong survival instinct but she isn’t headstrong. Your heart goes out to her at every turn but she is not a damsel in distress. What I liked about this book: The character of Ayla.

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The story is full of heart and suspense and even though the book has many pages, you can’t help but eat them all up. There is so many descriptions of anything you may need to understand, yet it never feels like a history lesson. It is amazing how much detail is in the book regarding the life of the Clan and how all forms of life lived on earth at that time. However Jean Auel has painstakingly researched everything she could when writing this book and any inaccuracies within the text are mainly due to findings after the book was published. Daryl Hannah (Splash, Blade Runner) is Ayla in a richly detailed, beautifully filmed screen version of Jean M.

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This book is set 30,000+ years in the past and with that the author would usually have a license to rewrite history as most readers would have very little knowledge base on life at that time.

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I had never heard of the Earth Children series before reading this book, which is the first in the series of 6.

She painstakingly nurses her back to health–a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, has little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the “Others”. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group of Neanderthal who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. Auels prehistoric story, with Daryl Hannah as a Cro-Magnon girl raised by a Neanderthal tribe. As the seasons wear on, the tribe utilizes Ayla's knowledge for their own good while Ayla's continues to try the patience of the tribe with her unspeakable feminist demands.When her parents are killed by an earthquake, five-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Full Cast & Crew. She learns to count and becomes the assistant to the local medicine expert. She then questions the tribe's assumptions concerning sexual politics.

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Unable to conceive of why only men are given weapons, she takes it upon herself to learn how to use a slingshot. The Neanderthals quickly accept her into their tribe, but once a tribal member, Ayla begins to question the tribe's male chauvinistic presumptions. Focusing on a tribe of wandering Neanderthals who adopt a young girl named, Ayla (played as an adult by Daryl Hannah). The story begins at the moment in pre-history when the last of the Neanderthal men were becoming extinct and the superior race of Cro-Magnons were starting to supersede them. Auel's best-selling ode to Cro-Magnon women. This is pretty hade some part you get shock of,the book is better,but give it a try.Cinematographer Michael Chapman directed this John Sayles adaptation of Jean M.